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Olympic Roundup

14 August 2012

We are all delighted that 6 athletes who have all been through our Sport High Performance programme while at the University of Bristol achieved 5 Olympic medals in the past 2 weeks.
  • Laura Bechtolscheimer won both a Gold and a Bronze medal in the dressage
  • Hannah Mills won a Silver medal in the Sailing.
  • Ian Percy also won a Silver medal in the Sailing
  • Georgie Twigg won a Bronze medal in the Hockey

In addition Lawrence Clarke in achieving a PB of 13.31 sec for the 110 mtr Hurdles got to an amazing 4th place in the Olympic final.

Claire Hallissey was 57th in the Women's Marathon.

Our sincere congratulations go out to all 6 of these athletes.

Gordon Trevett, High Performance Manager & Director of Rowing said

"It is extremely pleasing that our well proven High Performance programme, and our coaches had a hand in the development of these athletes, so that each year they stepped up in performance."